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... in a small town called Bastogne in Belgium. Ned (Lise’s SO) is quite the history buff and recounted some interesting facts about the siege between the Nazi and US belligerents towards the end of WWII.

Emma had a go (ask her for the details about the roundabouts) at driving for a while and we eventually arrived a tad late to Leiden, a small city just south of Amsterdam. We were leaving the car here near Willem’s place (a friend of Lise and Ned’s from ...

... We turned the corner and like the people in 80AD seeing the colosseum for the first time it was spectacular. You could imagine the people coming from everywhere to enjoy the entertainment within the arena. The lines were short and we got in very quickly. It was a great learning curve in the colosseum and what I thought about the colosseum was different to reality. The Colosseum could hold over 50,000 spectators and was used for more than just gladiatorial contests. ...

... br> When I attended Observatorio Politico's intensive 3-day program with my classmates, a major topic of discussion was how the PIGS arrived at this crisis and ways to possibly lift them out of the crisis. One statistic that kept being mentioned during our discussions was the high unemployment rates in all of these countries (notably 15.3% in Portugal and 26.7% in Spain). This kept being mentioned because unemployment tends to be a ...

On our last day in Rome we revisited some sights and had a overall chill day. We walked around compo di fiori shopping and eating lunch and walked through the Jewish ghettos where Jews were forced to live during the reconquista. It was really fun to just be able to take in the sights and be able to ...

... to our hostel and dropped our bags and headed out into the city. It was sunny and warm out so we just walked around in a sweater but some of the locals were all bundled up in huge coats and scarves. We stopped at a take away pizza shop that made you little personal pizzas right in the oven and then you could stand outside and eat them. After some more walking we hung out at the hostel for a while and then went to dinner at a small little ...